System Requirements

Microsoft® Windows® Supported Operating Systems (1)

1. The Windows operating system requirements follow the Microsoft Windows lifecycle policy which can be viewed at: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
2. Supported as a 32-bit application running in the 64-bit OS.
   License configuration limitations. Only Safenet hardware-keys are supported.
   FE Solver supported as a 64-bit application.
   Support included for Intel® EM64T compatible processors.
3. Required: Windows XP Professional SP2.

Computer and Software Requirements:

RAM

• Minimum: 1GB RAM
  • Basic models
  • Models including small FE components
  • NVH Analysis 
• X64 processor with minimum of 6GB
  • Very large models
  • Multiple large FE components
  • Complex models with large duty cycles
  • Complex NVH Analysis
  • Models that exceed the process size limit of 32 bit architecture

Video

• A certified OpenGL workstation graphics card and driver

CPU

• Minimum: 2GHz x86
• Recommended: 2.5Ghz + x86 or x64 based processor
• NVH & Large FEA analysis:
  
  • 2.5Ghz + x64 based processor, 4+ cores
  • Intel® Pentium™ (8), Intel® Xeon™ (8), and Intel® Core™
  • AMD® Athlon™, AMD® Opteron™, and AMD® Turion™

Mouse

• 2 button mouse with scroll wheel